...an all too common sight in rural France and particularly in rural Brittany - it's a sign of changed times. In our area, from way back and right through to the 1960s, every community had a large number of subsistence farmers. They had a couple of cows, a pig or two, lots of poultry and rabbits and enough land to grow vegetables and animal feed - a very rude existence. Post-war development created job opportunities and the promise of a better standard of living so most families deserted the old traditions but often, a bachelor son would remain on the farm and continue in the old way.
Such was the case here - this was Victor's farm. Victor died a few years ago and the farm died with him. It would cost more to renovate the farm than it would to build a modern all mod-cons house so nobody wants it and it's left to rot away. They call it progress!
@mikelskoog The dappled light was not so much 'mimicked by the clouds' but, rather, caused by them as the sun was setting behind them. It was this that initially caught my eye.
the story..so evocative of times past, present and future..fav
Ian